Business View Magazine | November 2019

128 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2019 FAYETTE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA Centrally located to where your business needs to be 724.437.7913 | faypenn.org 1040 Eberly Way, Suite 200, Lemont Furnace, PA 15456 Transportation’s multi-modal grant program. And that will be for 70 percent of the funding for hangar construction.” Other Airport tenants include: • The Fayette County Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT) Response Team. • Fayette Area Coordinated Transportation (FACT). FACT is the main public bus service line for all of Fayette County with trips throughout the county each day. It occupies approximately 4.5 acres of property at the main entrance to the Airport. • STAT MedEvac 5, a helicopter/air ambulance service of the Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania, Inc. rents space, buys fuel, and conducts maintenance onsite. • The Connellsville Flying School. • Aero Aviation Training Center, LLC, which provides flight training services to the public. • Aviation Network, LLC, which provides aviation management and maintenance. • North Central Aviation, LLC, which provides charter flights. • The Washington Security Group, Inc., which provides the training and consulting in specific national security areas. Another major tenant at Connellsville Airport is Air Travel Management LLC, whose Chief Operations Officer is Mark Shipley. “We used to be at Morgantown Airport which was receiving commercial service,” Shipley recounts. “We actually helped them get some of that commercial service back, and maybe, shot ourself in the foot because it made the airport a more expensive place to operate and for general aviation, it made it a harder airport to get in and out of because of the control tower, TSA, and some other restrictions. So, we moved our operation to Connellsville around 2008. At that time we had one airplane and one flight school plane and we did a little bit